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Video Games To Be Added To The Grammys
Video Game composers will now be granted the long overdue chance to receive top honours by The Recording Academy. [Insert cheesy line here about music to our ears or something] [...]
Sony And Hotz Reach Agreement Out Of Court — Full Settlement Details Attached
Both Sony and George “GeoHot” Hotz have confirmed that they’ve settled their dispute out of court, which means the battle has ended. After weeks of court cases, injunctions and attacks [...]
Ubisoft Really Want To Beat Activision And Electronic Arts
Ubisoft’s CEO, Yves Guillemot, seems to be saying a lot lately as we previously saw him talking about the videogame depression and the lack of next-generation consoles. Well, this time [...]
THQ Says That Future Homefront Games Will Be Different To Other Shooters
Danny Bilson from THQ has said that future Homefront games will be very different to other games in the same shooting genre. When speaking with Gamespot at the MI6 Conference, [...]
BioWare Thinks That A Mass Effect MMO Makes Sense
Casey Hudson, from BioWare, has said that the company hasn’t yet been able to find a good way to work the multiplayer aspect of Mass Effect, and because of this [...]
BioShock Infinite Won’t At All Be Dumbed Down For Gamers
Last time Ken Levine — the BioShock creator — said something we actually published, it was about sex. And this time, it’s different. Levine, when speaking to VG247, has said [...]
Uncharted 3: More Details On The Story And Gameplay
In the latest issue of OPM, information about Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception has been revealed. The new teasers commented on the game as well as how Naughty Dog shared that [...]
The Gaming Industry Is In A Depression Because There Are No New Consoles
Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, has said that the gaming industry is asleep, however new consoles could wake it from its depressive slumber. During a recent interview with MCV, [...]
Square Enix Delays Dungeon Siege III
Megarom has hit us up with an official press document stating that the European and other PAL territories — like South Africa — will be delayed to receive Dungeon Siege [...]
Get 50% Off A 12-Month Xbox Live Gold Subscription Whenever You Buy A Game Or Console
Xbox South Africa will offer a 50% price cut on a 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions whenever you buy a Xbox game or console at a selected local retailer. Live [...]
Sex Is “Kind Of Silly In Videogames Right Now” — BioShock Boss
BioShock director Ken Levine has said that it’s probably a good that developers do not include sex scenes into games. The Irrational Games boss said that only a small amount [...]
First Mass Effect 3 Artwork Revealed – Universe Implosion Imminent
Remember the article where I mentioned the imminent reveal of mass Mass Effect 3 content in the month to come? Well the first artwork for the “threequel” has appeared online [...]
EA CEO Encouraging Advertisers To Buy Shares In Video Game Marketing
Yesterday, we published an article about how EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello, stated that the Call of Duty franchise was the main competitor to Battlefield 3, and how both companies are [...]
Kinect Grows Up, Receives First 18-Rated Game: Rise Of Nightmares
The British Board Of Film Classification is the first to award a game for Microsoft Kinect an 18-rated certificate, making Sega’s Rise Of Nightmares the first game for adults on [...]
Patcher Doesn’t Believe That Infinity Ward Founders Will Get Their Own Back
Jason West and Vince Zampella are currently fighting against Activision with regard to Call of Duty and the brand–Modern Warfare–which they claim to own. The two Infinity Ward founders are [...]
Minecraft Has Already Generated Over $33 Million USD In Revenue
Minecraft is still in beta and it has already made the creator, Markus “Notch” Persson”, a truck load of cash. Or ten truck loads, to be slightly more correct. And [...]
EA Targets Call Of Duty As Main Competitor To Battlefield 3
So by now most of you have seen videos and screenshots of Battlefield 3, and I am sure that you’ll agree with me when I say it is looking absolutely [...]
Sony Says That Their NGP Handheld Is Perfect For MMOs
The future of Massive Multiplayer Online games might change from PC-only to an industry-wide offering very soon. In a recent interview the Sony Online Entertainment boss, John Smedley, was questioned [...]
Mysterious Valve Concept Art Appears — Let The Speculation Begin
Mysterious Valve concept art has emerged, after a fan and PC Gamer took snaps of said artwork in the developer’s office. There are 28 pieces in total, some of which [...]
Bolt-On Multiplayer Is Not The Way Forward – Pitchford
Gearbox president Randy Pitchford believes that most publishers are forcing developers into sticking multiplayer components in their games in a bid to match or outdo competition. Irrespective of whether the [...]
Modern Warfare Creators Complain About Broken Promises From Activision — More Legal Action On The Way
There’s an ongoing legal battle between Activision and Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella after the Call of Duty publisher cut the two out of compensation for the [...]
Rumour: Square Enix To Publish ‘Project X’ With External Studio
Whilst snooping around a NeoGaf user noted an update to Square Enix director Nobu Tanaka’s profile, mentioning three “signed” projects. The first two were Supreme Commander 2, and Obsidian’s Dungeon [...]
Gabe Newell Reveals Favourite Video Game – Not Lost: Via Domus
Everyone knows the patriarchal Gabe Newell by now and if you don’t, you should be cornered and shot, but not before your gaming platform is confiscated, with all games, and [...]
Marcus Fenix Story To End, But No End In Sight For Gears Of War Universe
The Gears of War franchise is easily one of the best franchises out in the gaming world today, despite it being an Xbox exclusive, and Producer Rod Fergusson has said [...]
Australian Gaming Might Be Set To Actually Exist – Possibly
Remember all of those fun games that you’ve played recently? All of those games that you properly enjoyed, that carried an M rating? Well chances are, Australia has never seen [...]
Announcements of Announcements! This time, Mass Effect 3!
I was woefully late to the Mass Effect series. Having sampled the first one when it released on PC, I only bothered to actually play it through many years later [...]
FIFA 12 May Be Headed To NGP And 3DS
That’s not much of a shocker really, but the interesting part is whether both handhelds will be out and swinging by the time FIFA 12 is actually released. Either way, [...]
DICE: In Most Cases Sandbox Games Are ‘Boring And Not Very Popular’
Battlefield 3′s executive producer Patrick Bach has gone pretty far out in describing sandbox games as largely “hardcore, boring, hard to get into and not very popular.” He must never [...]
FIFA 12 Announcement Announced!
Do you love announcements? Well then you’ll be thrilled to read that this is an announcement of an announcement! That’s right, Inception-styled announcements, now a reality! EA Sports is set [...]
THQ Partners With Random House Publishing Group To Develop New IPs
THQ, developers of the recently released FPS Homefront, have just announced a partnership with Random House Publishing Group in the pursuit to develop new and original IPs “across multiple mediums”. [...]




